
Alan Mowbray
Born
August 17, 1896
Died
March 25, 1969 (72 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alan Mowbray MM, (18 August 1896 - 25 March 1969), was an English stage and film actor who found success in Hollywood. Born Alfred Ernest Allen in London, England, he served with distinction the British Army in World War I, being awarded the Military Medal for bravery. He began as a stage actor, making his way to the United States where he appeared in Broadway plays and toured the country as part of a theater troupe. As Alan Mowbray, he made his motion picture debut in 1931, going on to a career primarily as a character actor in more than 140 films including the sterling butler role in the comedy Merrily We Live, and playing the title role in the TV series The Adventures of Colonel Flack. During World War II, he made a memorable appearance as the Devil in the Hal Roach propaganda comedy The Devil with Hitler. He appeared in some two dozen guest roles on various television series. Mowbray was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild, with outside interests that led to membership in Britain's Royal Geographic Society. He played the title role in the television series Colonel Humphrey Flack, which first appeared in 1953-1954 and then was revived in 1958-1959. In the 1954-1955 television season Mowbray played Mr. Swift, the drama coach of the character Mickey Mulligan, in NBC's short-lived situation comedy The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan. Mowbray died of a heart attack in 1969 in Hollywood and was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Mowbray, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
1984

The Flying Nun
Father Duffy · (1 episode)
1967

Mister Roberts
(2 episodes)
1965

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Harry Blackburn · (1 episode)
1964

Petticoat Junction
Lucius J. Penrose · (1 episode)
1963

Burke's Law
Butterfield · (1 episode)
1963

The Patty Duke Show
(1 episode)
1963

The Beverly Hillbillies
Montrose · (1 episode)
1962

A Majority of One
Captain Norcross
1961

Dante
Stewart Styles · (26 episodes)
1960

Fibber McGee & Molly
(1 episode)
1959

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Carlson · (1 episode)
1958

Maverick
Luke Abigor · (1 episode)
1957
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self · (2 episodes)
1957

Meet McGraw
Osgood · (1 episode)
1957

Blondie
Jack Bell · (1 episode)
1957

Around the World in Eighty Days
British Consul
1956
The Gale Storm Show
Hadley Dexter · (1 episode)
1956

The King and I
Sir John Hay
1956

The Man Who Knew Too Much
Val Parnell
1956
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Gordon
1956

Matinee Theater
(1 episode)
1955

The King's Thief
Sir Gilbert Talbot
1955

The Bob Cummings Show
Hawthorne · (1 episode)
1955

The Steel Cage
Lee Filbert, segment "The Chef"
1954

Social Lion
Narrator
1954
Hey Mulligan
Jonathan Swift, Drama Instructor · (1 episode)
1954

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
Alphonsus Mannering
1954
Colonel Humphrey Flack
(77 episodes)
1953
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
(1 episode)
1953

The Life Of Riley
Uncle Baxter · (1 episode)
1953

Blackbeard, the Pirate
Noll
1952

Androcles and the Lion
Editor of Gladiators
1952

Mr. & Mrs. North
(2 episodes)
1952

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Orville · (1 episode)
1952

The Ford Television Theatre
(1 episode)
1952
Four Star Playhouse
Jackson · (2 episodes)
1952
Four Star Playhouse
Albert · (1 episode)
1952
Four Star Playhouse
Jackson - Waiter · (2 episodes)
1952

Just Across the Street
Davis
1952
Chevron Theatre
(1 episode)
1952

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Mayor Perkins · (1 episode)
1951

Crosswinds
The Hon Cecil Daubrey
1951

The Red Skelton Show
Explorer Radccliffe · (1 episode)
1951

The Lady and the Bandit
Lord Charles Willoughby
1951

The Jackpot
Leslie
1950

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Professor Bradford · (1 episode)
1950
Lux Video Theatre
Carter · (1 episode)
1950

Wagon Master
Dr. A. Locksley Hall
1950

Robert Montgomery Presents
(1 episode)
1950

The Lone Wolf and His Lady
Jamison
1949

You're My Everything
Joe Blanton
1949

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Melton
1949

The Lovable Cheat
Justin
1949

Every Girl Should Be Married
Mr. Spitzer
1948

My Dear Secretary
Deveny (Bryant Detective Agency)
1948

An Innocent Affair
Ken St. Clair
1948

The Prince of Thieves
The Friar
1948

The Main Street Kid
The Great Martine
1948

Captain from Castile
Prof. Botello
1947

Merton of the Movies
Frank Mulvaney
1947

Lured
Lyle Maxwell
1947

The Pilgrim Lady
Clifford Latimer
1947

My Darling Clementine
Granville Thorndyke
1946
Idea Girl
J. C. Crow
1946

Terror by Night
Major Duncan-Bleek
1946

Sunbonnet Sue
Jonathan
1945

Men in Her Diary
Douglas Crane
1945

Tell It to a Star
Col. Ambrose Morgan
1945

Where Do We Go from Here?
General George Washington
1945

The Phantom of 42nd Street
Cecil Moore
1945

Earl Carroll Vanities
Grand Duke Paul
1945

Bring on the Girls
August
1945

My Gal Loves Music
Rodney Spoonyer
1944

The Doughgirls
Breckinridge Drake
1944

Ever Since Venus
J. Webster Hackett
1944

His Butler's Sister
Buzz Jenkins
1943

Holy Matrimony
Mr. Pennington
1943

So This Is Washington
Chester W. Marshall
1943

Stage Door Canteen
Alan Mowbray
1943

Slightly Dangerous
English Gentleman
1943

The Powers Girl
John Robert Powers
1943

The Devil with Hitler
Gesatan
1942

Panama Hattie
Jay Jerkins, Dick's Butler
1942

Isle of Missing Men
Dr. Brown
1942

A Yank at Eton
Mr. Duncan
1942

The Mad Martindales
Hugo Martindale
1942

We Were Dancing
Grand Duke Basil
1942

Yokel Boy
R.B. Harris - Movie Producer
1942
Three Blonde Mice
Elmer Smith
1942

The Perfect Snob
Freddie Browning
1941

I Wake Up Screaming
Robin Ray
1941

Moon Over Her Shoulder
Grover Sloan
1941

Ice-Capades
Pete Ellis
1941
French Fried Patootie
1941

The Cowboy and the Blonde
Phineas Johnson
1941

That Uncertain Feeling
Doctor Vengard
1941

That Hamilton Woman
Sir William Hamilton
1941

Footlight Fever
Don Avery
1941

The Quarterback
Professor Hobbs
1940

The Villain Still Pursued Her
Silas Cribbs
1940

The Boys from Syracuse
Angelo
1940

Scatterbrain
J.R. Russell
1940

Curtain Call
Donald Avery
1940

Music in My Heart
Charles Spencer Gardner III
1940

The Llano Kid
John Travers
1939

Way Down South
Jacques Bouton
1939

Never Say Die
le Prince Smirnov
1939

Topper Takes a Trip
Wilkins - Topper's Butler
1938

There Goes My Heart
Penny E. Pennypepper
1938

Merrily We Live
Grosvenor
1938

Hollywood Hotel
Alexander Duprey
1938

Breakdowns of 1937
Self
1937

Stand-In
Koslofski
1937

Music for Madame
Leon Rodowsky
1937

On Such a Night
Prof. Richard Candle
1937

Vogues of 1938
Henry Morgan
1937

Topper
Wilkins
1937

Marry the Girl
Dr. Stryker
1937

As Good as Married
Wally
1937

The King and the Chorus Girl
Donald Taylor
1937

On the Avenue
Frederick Sims
1937

Rainbow on the River
Ralph Layton
1936
Four Days Wonder
Archibald Fenton
1936

Ladies in Love
Paul Sandor
1936

My Man Godfrey
Tommy Gray
1936

Mary of Scotland
Throckmorton
1936

Fatal Lady
Uberto Malla
1936

The Case Against Mrs. Ames
Lawrence Waterson
1936

Desire
Dr. Maurice Pauquet
1936

Give Us This Night
Forcellini
1936

Muss 'em Up
Paul Harding
1936

Rose Marie
Premier
1936

In Person
Jay Holmes
1935

She Couldn't Take It
Alan Bartlett
1935

The Gay Deception
Lord Clewe
1935

Lady Tubbs
Elyot Wembsleigh
1935

Becky Sharp
Rawdon Crawley
1935
Night Life of the Gods
Hunter Hawk
1935

Charlie Chan in London
Geoffrey Richmond
1934

Embarrassing Moments
Aheam
1934

One More River
Forsythe
1934

The Girl from Missouri
Lord Douglas
1934

Little Man, What Now?
Franz Schlüter
1934

Where Sinners Meet
Nicholas
1934

Cheaters
Paul Southern
1934

The House of Rothschild
Prince Metternich
1934

Long Lost Father
Sir Anthony "Tony" Gelding
1934

Her Secret
Nils Norton
1933

Roman Scandals
Majordomo
1933

The World Changes
Sir Philip Ivor
1933

Berkeley Square
Major Clinton
1933

Voltaire
Count de Sarnac
1933

Midnight Club
Arthur Bradley
1933

Peg o' My Heart
Capt. Christopher 'Chris' Brent
1933

A Study in Scarlet
Lestrade
1933

Sherlock Holmes
Colonel Gore-King
1932

The Phantom President
George Washington (uncredited)
1932

Two Against the World
George 'Georgie' Walton
1932

Winner Take All
Forbes, the etiquette teacher
1932

The Man Called Back
King's Counsel
1932

Jewel Robbery
Detective Fritz
1932

The Man from Yesterday
Dr. Waite
1932

Man About Town
Ivan Boris
1932

The World and the Flesh
Dimitri
1932

Hotel Continental
Walter Underwood
1932

The Silent Witness
Arthur Drinton
1932

Lovers Courageous
Lamone
1932

Nice Women
Mark Chandler
1931

Honor of the Family
Tony Revere
1931

Left Over Ladies
Jerry
1931

Alexander Hamilton
George Washington
1931

Guilty Hands
Gordon Rich
1931

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 6: 'The Big Irons'
Mr. Mowbray (uncredited)
1931

The Man in Possession
Sir Charles Cartwright
1931

God's Gift to Women
Auguste, Toto's Butler
1931